The wind began to blow, Lu Lin gathered his coat around him.
Lu Lin started transporting the sweet potato wine stored in his shop onto the carriage as they got closer to the city. Chen Xiao Mi had to curl up to make room for the bottles.
The couple and Manager Wang of Good Luck Restaurant were on good terms, they went straight to the backyard of the restaurant after they arrived.
Manager Wang was interested in the sweet potato wine, but he offered a lower price, 300 cents per bottle.
Lu Lin thought about it, he nodded in agreement even though the price was lower than beer.
Manager Wang paid them 17 taels of silver for ten bottles of beer and 30 bottles of sweet potato wine.
Chen Xiao Mi was very happy when Lu Lin handed the money to him, he held the silver with cupped hands and started to get emotional. Making money was a mission for him before he met Lu Lin, but now everything seemed so easy, they made money without risking their lives!
Chen Xiao Mi used to lose sleep at night when they were making money, but now he could sleep better because he was used to it.
Chen Xiao Mi bought some cloth after they left the restaurant. Chen Xiao Mi suddenly realized that he was turning into Lu Lin, Lu Lin enjoyed shopping whenever they sold alcohol.
“Next time please stop me when I buy things, fabrics are not important.” Chen Xiao Mi was very regretful.
Lu Lin laughed: “Why, we need the fabric, we can make some clothes.”
Lu Lin came to Chen Xiao Mi’s house empty-handed, he had been wearing Chen Xiao Mi’s old clothes or had Grandma Shen make a winter jacket for him. But he needed some spring clothes sooner or later, he had no intention of going back to the host’s old house and picking up old patched clothes.
Chen Xiao Mi rolled his eyes: ‘Rich kid! Clothes can be worn for three years fresh, three years old, and three more years in patches! And he only likes to eat lean meat, lean meat is much more expensive than fatty meat!’
But after thinking about it, Lu Lin could afford to be this luxurious, cloth and meat money were nothing compared to the money he made.
“But it’s still winter, no need to make spring clothes this early.”
Lu Lin smiled: “Grandma Shen is not busy right now, and spring is a busy season for villagers, so I want to finish it now.”
Chen Xiao Mi nodded: “You’re right. Grandma Shen will definitely be busy on her farm in the spring, perhaps she won’t have the time or energy to make clothes then.”
Lu Lin had just tried a new recipe at home.
Stewed Chicken with Bamboo Shoots had made the Chen Brothers drool.
Chen Xiao Mi counted the savings, he went wild with excitement when he learned that they had a total of over 130 taels of silver now.
The transactions between them and Manager Wang became more hidden, the villagers knew that they were doing business, but no one knew how much money they were making.
The Chen Brothers had had an exceptional winter, and it showed in their rosy cheeks.
Most of the villagers looked rather pale due to malnutrition, and so did the host Lu Lin. Lu Lin now also looked much healthier.
The winter had passed smoothly, the days began to warm up day by day.
The villagers started to get busy on the farm, but Chen Xiao Mi did not have a farm, so he learned to make sweet potato wine from Lu Lin.
“Mi, are you going hunting soon?” Lu Lin asked.
“No, hunters tend not to hunt in early spring.”
“Why is that?” Lu Lin looked puzzled.
Chen Xiao Mi took a quick glance at him: ‘Ha, finally something you don’t know!’
“The animals conceive in spring, we don’t need to hunt them then.”
Lu Lin nodded: “Ah~”
Chen Xiao Mi smiled: ‘It’s funny that he doesn’t have common sense like this, but he has all these new ideas in his mind.’
The couple had made several trips to the city to sell wine, Lu Lin started selling more sweet potato wine because he couldn’t bear to sell beer anymore, he liked beer when he was in modern society.
The villagers were getting curious as to why the two were traveling to town so often now.
Chen Xiao Mi asked about farmland in the village as they had more wealth, while Lu Lin was more interested in commercial real estate in the city.
There was no farmland for sale in Big Stone Village, and Chen Xiao Mi knew the other villages would not sell their farmland to outsiders like him even if they had farmland for sale.
Chen Xiao Mi had to wait for the right time to buy farmland.
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